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Dates for Westport Arts Festival 2012 announced

  Mark your diary now!   We’ve set the dates for the 37th Westport Arts Festival: Monday, October 1 to Sunday, October 14, 2012.   For the first time ever we’ll be running for a full two weeks, with two action-packed weekends full of events. As ever, we’ll have an exciting, quirky and diverse line-up of things for you to [...]

Thrills, chills, romance and comedy in Westport’s 19th century drive-in movie theatre

A 200-year-old courtyard at Westport House will be transformed into a state-of-the-art drive-in movie theatre for a series of screenings of classic movies

Glen Hansard’s Westport gig sells out in 18 minutes – a Mayo record?

As expected, Glen Hansard’s October 11 performance in the 36th Westport Arts Festival sold out fast. Nobody had expected, however, that it would be quite so fast. The online ticket store opened at 6am and by 6.18 the last ticket had been sold and it’s now winging its way to the UK. There were only 80 tickets available to see [...]

Glen Hansard in the frame to sell out exclusive Westport gig

Frames frontman Glen Hansard's October 11 show in Matt Molloy's is likely to sell out within hours of the 6am release of tickets

Drive in to a space odyssey spectacular at Westport House

Drive in to a Space Odyssey Spectacular in Westport House

BLINK visual arts trail

BLINK is hosting more than visual art exhibitions throughout Westport. The work ranges from the internationally recognised to established local and visiting artists, and the enthusiastic work of amateurs

PJ Lynch Poster

We are delighted to present the 2011 Arts festival poster, created by Dublin based artist PJ Lynch. PJ Lynch has worked as a Children’s Book Illustrator since leaving Brighton College of Art in England in 1984. He has won many awards including the Mother Goose Award, the Christopher Medal three times, and the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal on two occasions [...]